FreeCad Issues/Solutions

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What

This is all based on a beginners view of FreeCad, one with little experience in any CAD program. Something is an issue if it has given me a problem. This may be just because I do not understand the program or am approaching the problems the wrong way. In other case I may have come across things that bother other users and the solutions may be of some help. In other cases the issue may be a bug or limitation of the program.


Issues/Solutions

These are issues that I think I have solved. The solution may not work for you, there are so many things that can go wrong.

I Cannot Rename the top of the Component Tree

Solution: This is the file name, use the File -> Save or File -> Save As menu

Pasted Object but "Nothing" Happened

Solution: You may be really zoomed in. Use the view all icon. Always use this when you do not see what you expect. Also look for tiny objects that you may miss. Look in the tree to see if component is there, turn off the visibility of other components. Your new component may also be inside an existing one.

Could Not Fuse More than 2 Objects

Solution: I was confused over 2 icons that are almost the same, one is for boolean operations which looks a lot like the fuse one!

Issues

These are issues for which I have not found much of a solution.